Removing the Black Tape : Survivor Speaks out SA’S Dagga Couple
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A A C T I V A T E RHODES UNIVERSITY INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER EDITION 2 • 20 MARCH 2012 • SINCE 1947 Jabu Stone in G’town Removing the black tape : Survivor speaks out SA’s Dagga Couple GIVEAWAY TONIGHT: 2 Double tickets to SPLASHY FEN! Photo Feature: KNOW YOUR MEAT* *Warning: this feature is not for the faint-hearted Edition 2 . 20 March 2012 Page 7: Editor-in-chief: RU student forum Lauren Kate Rawlins Deputy Editor: Page 10: Isabelle Anne Abraham Content Editor: LARK interview Kayla Roux Managing Editor Palesa Mashigo Page 11: Online Editor: Alexander Venturas Chief Media Supervisor: Political correctness Megan Ellis and power of the Chief Sub-Editor: Matthew Kynaston tongue Chief Designer Simone Loxton Assistant Designer: Page 15: Mignon van Zyl Chief Pics Editor: HIGHLIGHTS Anton Scholtz Know your meat Assistant Pics Editor: Niamh Walsh-Vorster Page 18: Illustrator: Katja Schreiber Singing for sex? News Editor: Sibulele Mabusela Deputy News Editor: Page 20: Neo Koza Politics Editor: Sexual abuse and the Marc Davies Business Editor: male myth Njabulo Nkosi C&A Editor: Alexa Sedgwick Page 27: Features Editor: Karlien van der Wielen Features Assistant Editor: Jack Parow performs live on the main stage at the 2010 Splashy Fen music festival. Splashy is Win a meal at La Trattoria Nina McFall held annually over the Easter weekend in the foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains and is Lifestyle Editor: South Africa’s longest running music festival. This year’s festival promises to be the best yet, Sarisha Dhaya win one of two double tickets with Activate tonight! Turn to Page 8 for more details… A & E Editor: Elna Schütz Front Page Picture: Jabu Stone is regarded in many circles as ‘Mr Dreads’ because of his Sports Editor: dedication and vigorous pursuit of the African identity through the promotion of braids and Bridgette Hall African locks amongst African people. Stone was one of the speakers in the Sasol ChemCity Science & Tech Editor: Talkshop Series that were held at ScifestAfrica 2012. Stone is successful entrepreneur who Brad de Klerk started his own business developing products for dreadlocks. He is an inspiration to all South Environment Editor Africans and encouraged those in his Talkshop to work for themselves and not for someone Shirley Erasmus else. Pics: Lauren Rawlins Advertising Manager Lethukuthula Tembe Advertising Assistants From the Editor Justine Pearce Adrienne Weidner Distribution Manager: his edition of Activate has been an interesting and challenging one for Tomorrow, 21 March, our country will be celebrating Human Rights Day. To- Bulali Dyakopu our team. Challenging because we expanded the paper from 24 to 32 night, Activate hopes to celebrate your right to freedom of expression with you. pages, and because some of the content we are addressing is of a sensi- Your freedom to say want you want, to let your beat be heard… this event and Community Engagement: Victoria Hlubi Ttive nature and needed to be tackled comprehensively. On the other hand, it the concept behind it has helped me reflect, and in light of recent events I think has been interesting because we have tried to approach our content in a new that it rings very true that freedom of speech does not mean freedom from Editorial Consultant: way, allowing our readers to play an active role in the creation of our paper. For consequence. Just because you have the freedom to say what you want, does Craig Wynn this reason, we have placed particular emphasis on our Comment & Analysis not mean that someone does not have an equal freedom to respond negatively. section in this edition. I would like you to be able to engage with Activate and We hope to create a reciprocal relationship with our readers – one in which Contacts: Editor: to join in the conversation around the topics that you care about. We want to ideas and concepts can go back and forth and both parties never stop learning activate.editor@gmail. avoid dressing our opinion up as fact, but rather explore the social situations from each other. com that we all find ourselves in alongside our readers. Media producers should create and facilitate debates and provide a platform from which readers can Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editor: activate.deputy@gmail. have their say. Lauren Kate Rawlins com There are a number of important events happening this week at Rhodes. To- Activate falls under a morrow, the SRC will be hosting a student body meeting called ‘The people creative commons licence. shall govern’, and on Friday is Rhodes’ annual Silent Protest - both very im- Printed by Paarlcoldset, portant for different reasons - and we deal with both of them in the paper. Port Elizabeth Last week was Environmental Week. Our photo feature relates to this and I would like to make it clear that we did not run this story to push a vegan or vegetarian agenda (most of my team are carnivores, including the photogra- pher!), but rather to inform our readers and to help them make responsible choices about food. 04 News in [Brief] Edition 2 DA and COSATU clash DA Parliamentary Leader Lindiwe Mazibuko said the trade union confederation COSATU has turned down the opportunity to discuss youth unemployment with her party. According to the SABC, Mazibuko felt that Cosatu stood in opposition to rulings that could greatly relieve youth unemployment. “On the one hand, they oppose corruption, and programmes such as e-tolling in Gauteng,” she said. “On the other hand, they continue to oppose a policy which would create an estimated 423 000 jobs for young, unemployed South Africans.” Mazibuko had written to COSATU’s General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, to request a meeting in which they could discuss such issues. Vavi allegedly declined the request. In reply, Spokesperson of COSATU Patrick Craven said they did not see any benefit in discussing such issues with the DA, for they have too many fundamental differences. “The basis for these differences are rooted in the fact that while COSATU represents the working class and the poor, the DA speaks for big business, the wealthy and the privileged,” he explained. A Syrian rebel plants a makeshift explosive device to destroy a Syrian Army tank dur- ing a day of heavy fighting with Syrian Army forces in Idlib, northern Syria. Sunday 11 Gaza Strip ceasefire breached March, 2012. Pics: AP/Rodrigo Abd Israeli military on the Gaza Strip agreed to cease their fire after a four-day conflict across the border. However, they have targeted Palestinian militant sites in the Gaza Strip in response to continued rocket fire on southern Israel. According to various news sources, 25 Palestinian lives have already been lost during the border conflict. The conflict reportedly began when an Israeli air raid killed senior military leader Zohair al-Qaisi, the Secretary General of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC). Israel claimed to have attacked him because he was planning an attack on them. The ceasefire constituted of a simple telephone agreement, and soldiers were to stop shooting early in the morning on Tuesday 13 March, but it has not proved complete, as was the case with previous agreements. Rocket fire and air strikes have continued sporadically but there have been no reports of additional casualties. Beagles sit in their kennels on the fourth and final day of Crufts at the Birmingham NEC Arena in Birmingham, England. Sunday 11 March, 2012. Pics: Getty Images/ Dan Kitwood Ethiopian migrants hold their travelling numbers as they wait to be repatriated at a transit centre run by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the western Yemeni town of Haradh, at the border of Saudi Arabia on 15 March 2012. Some 12 000 migrants, mostly from the Horn of Africa, are stranded in Haradh, which they use as a stepping stone to reach Saudi Arabia, according to the International Organization for Migration. Last week, local media reported atrocities committed against migrants by trafficking gangs which kidnap migrants for ransom from their families in the Gulf Arab states. Pic: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah March 11, 2012. The body of an Afghan child, shot by a rogue US soldier, is seen with other bodies in the back of a truck in Alkozai village of Panjwayi district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Pic: JANGIR / AFP / Getty Images 05 20 March 2012 News in Brief[s] in briefs NewsBy Sibulele Mabusela and Neo Koza [ ] The delivery tower at the Volkswagen company’s headquarter in Wolfsburg, Germany. 12 March, 2012. Pic: Reuters/Fabian Bimmer Nicholas Weidemann, a Grade 11 pupil from Beaulieu College in Midrand, takes a swab of his own DNA while his classmates inspect the task during the CSI:DNA workshop at The Monument, 14 March 2012. The workshop was run by Professor Valerie Corfield from the South African Medical Research Counsel to create awareness and is part of an advocacy group for the establishment of a national DNA database. Pic: Andrew Brukman A masked member of the National Teachers’ Union gestures as he walks past a line of police Red Bull offends officers during a protest march in Mexico City 15 March, 2012. Thousands of teachers from the state of Michoacan, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz and Mexico City took part in the protest against the mandatory evaluation tests for teachers and to demand the removal of the leader Catholics of their union, Elba Esther Gordillo, according to local media. Pic: REUTERS/Edgard Garrido Energy drink producer Red Bull has recently had to drop an advertisement in South Africa after a complaint about the advertisement’s portrayal of Jesus walking on water. Roman Catholic church Leaders urged Catholics to boycott the drink for Lent, arguing that the advertisement was blasphemous and offensive to Christians.